Expected next investor conference call information:
Conference Call Date: 11/17/2009
Conference Call Time (ET): 9:00 AM
Conference Call URL: http://ir.homedepot.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=63646&p=irol-EventDetails&EventId=2400527

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The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, with 2,243 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico and China. In fiscal 2008, The Home Depot had sales of $71.3 billion and earnings from continuing operations of $2.3 billion. The Company employs more than 300,000 associates. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index.

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SOURCE: The Home Depot

Financial Community, Diane Dayhoff, Vice President of Investor Relations,
+1-770-384-2666, diane_dayhoff@homedepot.com; or News Media, Paula Drake, Sr.
Manager, Corporate Communications, +1-770-384-3439, paula_drake@homedepot.com Web
Site: http://www.homedepot.com

HolidayLEDs.com, which also operates an annual Christmas light recycling program, announced today that it would accept unredeemed coupons from participants of the Home Depot program. Anyone who has an unredemed Home Depot coupon can go to the HolidayLEDs.com website and submit a request (http://www.holidayleds.com/home_depot_coupon_redemption) for a HolidayLEDs.com coupon of equal value. The coupons can be redeemed at HolidayLEDs.com toward the purchase of energy efficient LED Christmas Lights (http://www.holidayleds.com/). There is a limit of 5 coupons per person and there is a minimum purchase requirement of $15.00 per coupon. The program begins Friday, November 20th and all issued coupons will be valid through December 31, 2009.

For more information about HolidayLEDs.com or its Christmas light recycling (http://www.holidayleds.com/holidayledscom_christmas_light_recycling_program) program please visit http://www.holidayleds.com.

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Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/11/prweb3236244.htm.

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The company said its same-store sales fell 6.9%.

The company increased its full-year 2010 EPS guidance, now expecting earnings of approximately $1.55 (vs. consensus estimates of $1.53), up from $1.42 - $1.51.

The company offered this forward-looking statement, "There is still a great deal of pressure in the housing and home improvement markets, though there are some positive signs of stabilization."

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